Urban-rural variation in mortality and hospital admission rates for unintentional injury in Ireland

Injury Prevention

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 38-42

  Boland, M ^a   Staines, A ^a   Fitzpatrick, P ^a   Scallan, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DROWNING; FALLING; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH HAZARD; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INJURY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTOXICATION; IRELAND; MACHINE; MALE; MORTALITY; PEDESTRIAN; RURAL AREA; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; URBAN AREA;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DROWNING; FEMALE; FIREARMS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; IRELAND; MALE; POISONING; RURAL HEALTH; SEX DISTRIBUTION; URBAN HEALTH; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 13844251825     PISSN: 13538047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ip.2004.005371     Document Type: Article

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